At first, I asked my brother for this computer under the pretext that my daughter was practicing five-stroke typing. At that time, although my daughter had just graduated from school, the computer course in her school was only opened when they were about to graduate. There were not many opportunities to practice on the computer, so she did not know how to type when she left school. She knew that if she wanted to work in the coastal area, it would be impossible for her not to type on the computer.(At that time, knowing how to type with five strokes was equivalent to knowing how to use a computer), so her daughter practiced the five strokes input method day and night on this computer, and then went to the coastal area to find a job.
Her daughter had practiced five-stroke typing on this computer. After all, she had attended computer classes in school and practiced on the computer. She had some foundation. Now, at the age of 47, I have to use this computer to practice typing. To me, computer knowledge was nothing. It was extremely mysterious in my heart. Even the mention of the word "computer" would make me inexplicably feel a sense of holiness. It actually made me extremely excited. I thought that it was something that only great scientists were qualified to fiddle with. I never thought that I would be able to deal with computers in my life. Due to his extreme admiration for computers, he felt that the motivation to learn how to use a computer was about to jump out of his bones. He had to rely on his own willpower to learn how to use a computer. I found the computer textbook that my son used in university. I couldn't read the computer textbook because I couldn't even write all the English letters. It didn't matter if I couldn't understand it. I picked the physical picture in the textbook and looked at it. From the physical picture, I knew that the computer was composed of a monitor, a host power supply, a main board, a keyboard, and other parts.(At that time, the computer didn't have the Windos window interface, so there was no mouse.) When I understood this, I unplugged all the wires connecting the computer.(Initially, I had to ask the people from the computer maintenance department on the street to connect them.) So, I decided to go all out. I opened the mainframe box and dismantled all the parts that I could. Then, I sat in front of the pile of computer parts that I had dismembered and stared at the "internal organs" of the computer for the whole morning. I had enough of it. The so-called computer was just like the machine tool circuit control system that I had come into contact with when I was an electrical worker in my early years. It was made up of some printed circuit boards, a large pile of wires, and electrical components. The only difference was that it had added software programs. The fear I felt from the computer's strong sense of mystery had been alleviated.
I returned the disassembled computer components to their original state one by one. Then, I started the computer and used one finger to type in a few English commands that my daughter had written on a piece of paper before she went out to work. I didn't understand the meaning of these English commands, so I could only type them into the computer. Since the computer's response to the instructions was constantly changing under different conditions, I was often confused and confused because I couldn't understand the English prompts (or questions) that appeared on the screen. Every time I encounter such a situation, facing a rigid computer, I can't find anyone who knows how to use a computer. Only my wife and I are at home, and the children of the neighbors are not at home. I could only go to the computer repair shop on the street to ask for advice. However, because I didn't have the basic knowledge of computers, I didn't understand the professional slang of computers. I didn't understand what they said, nor did they understand the questions I wanted to ask. The young computer master didn't have the patience to listen to me (they were all busy with business). Every time it came to this kind of time, I was really stumped. The idea of giving up and not learning appeared.
At that time, there were many computer training classes on the market. Someone advised me to sign up for computer training classes. How could I not want to sign up? I even wandered around the door with a computer training sign many times, but in the end, I was scared by the tuition fee of thousands of yuan. At that time, my monthly salary was only 300 to 400 yuan, and I couldn't get paid normally after fishing for three months and drying the net for two months. Moreover, I didn't go to work anymore, so it was hard to say whether I would still get paid. It was difficult to even maintain my basic life. I really didn't have the money to learn computers. Besides, even if I go to a computer training class, I won't be able to understand the computer (English) instructions without a foundation in English. Therefore, at that time, in order to master computer skills, one had to learn English first. After understanding this, he made up his mind to start learning English.
I asked the children of my acquaintances for the Grade One English books that they no longer used and tried to learn by myself. Speaking of learning English, it has always been a wish of mine. It can even be said that it has become a sore spot. When he finished learning the English alphabets in junior high school, he had just started to learn simple English conversations. However, the cultural revolution had caused a ruckus in school, and he could not learn anything. Before the end of the cultural revolution, the students were sent to work on the farm. My English level stopped at a few English letters and I couldn't remember all of them. Although I had always maintained the habit of self-study of practical knowledge, I never dared to easily involve myself in English. At that time, not only did there not be any educational discs, but even the magnetic tape would only be available decades later. At that time, it was very expensive to buy a tape recorder. At that time, my family's income level would not even think about this. He was filled with envy and jealousy when he saw someone who could understand or speak English. The urge to learn English in his heart became stronger and stronger. Perhaps it was because this impulse had been suppressed for too long and was too strong, but in his mind, he had completely deified English. He thought that it was simply an unattainable peak and did not dare to touch it easily. However, this long-suppressed impulse was going to explode sooner or later. It just so happened that the computer's need for English ability became a breakthrough for me to release my motivation to learn English. Whenever I had time, I would read the English textbook silently. In fact, I couldn't read it at all because I didn't know the pronunciation and didn't know how to pronounce those words. Like a psychopath, I constantly imagined the pronunciation of the words in the textbook and silently read them in my heart. After a long time, it formed a fixed pattern in my heart, as if the pronunciation of these words was the pronunciation I imagined. Half a year later, when my daughter returned home from overseas, I used my imaginary pronunciation to talk to her. My daughter laughed and said,"Dad, what kind of English are you studying? It's like a rural dialect from a remote mountainous area. It can't even be considered Chinese English.”Sigh, after working hard for half a year, I only got this level of "English".
However, I wasn't discouraged because my daughter said that my pronunciation of English sounded like a country bumpkin's dialect. It can be said that my studies have received significant results. At that time, my primary task in learning English was to figure out what the English instructions that often appeared on the computer were for, because only by understanding the meaning of these instructions could I enter the computer and learn typing and word processing. I copied the English instructions that appeared on the computer onto a piece of paper. Then, I looked up the Chinese meaning of each word from the dictionary and wrote it under the English word. Then, I estimated and pieced together the meaning of this English sentence. This move was indeed effective. I was able to understand some of the less complicated English instructions first. By following these instructions, I could basically start up the computer and start practicing the five-stroke typing. For some of the complex English instructions that appeared on the computer, this clumsy method would not work. Like Chinese, an English word can have multiple meanings. In many cases, the meanings of these multiple words are very different. Whenever I am faced with these different or even contradictory explanations, I don't know which to choose. I asked my son, who was working in a foreign city, about this confusion on the phone. My son told me,"First choose the first explanation. If the whole sentence doesn't make sense, then choose the second one. This way, you can get the correct meaning of the sentence by repeated comparison."”At this time, my son was working in a foreign enterprise in the south. English had become his most basic communication tool. The method he told me was useful, but the clumsy method I had come up with before was actually similar to this. It turned out that learning English did not require much intelligence. It still needed to be polished with effort. After pondering over the meaning of the English sentence for a long time, he slowly understood a certain feeling. He couldn't tell what this feeling was, but when he saw an English sentence, he could roughly understand the meaning. This doesn't mean that I've understood the key points of English grammar. To put it bluntly, I haven't even understood Chinese grammar when I'm old, let alone English grammar. I can only rely on a feeling. No matter what method it was, it was always good that it was effective.
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